Ziggy Marley

“Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the act...”

“I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.”

“I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.”

“The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.”

“My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.”

“The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.”

“URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.”

“This dragonfly came up to me. He was hovering right in front of my face, and I was really examining him, thinking, How does he see me? I became enlightened.”

“My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.”

“In Jamaica, we eradicated polio many years ago, but there are a lot of kids suffering in Africa still.”

“I think Americans should have a policy of love. That should be the foreign policy, love. Export Love.”

“I think parents today are looking for meaningful things for their kid. It's about feeding them something with meaning.”

“Last time I was in Jamaica I financed a teacher to teach in an orphanage.”

“I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.”

“I like Flea, I like him as a musician.”

“The long-term study of GMO foods is going on in real time and in real life. Not in a lab.”

“I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps.”

“I don't fight creativity. I don't fight against not being creative. If I'm not being creative, I'm not forcing it.”

“If food is labeled, some people might choose to eat stuff that's genetically modified. They might decide they love it. But give us a choice.”

“The roots of my music start from the ghetto.”